Thoughts for the day..

Howdy.

Thought I'd leave some thoughts for the day. Ponder at will. Feel free to criticise or add something if you wish.

1. People are becoming increasingly socially blind (people can be so unkind)

For example (and this happens to me on a daily basis) you are in a lift and the door opens and someone rushes to get into thew lift before you can get out. This doesn't make any sense - people need to get out before there is room for you to get into a lift.

Second example (I witnessed it this morning). An elderly lady who had just stepped off the bus, fell over on the footpath in Mosman. Another woman was walking past and walked straight past her without even flinching or even looking, let alone helping the poor woman to her feet. So the bus driver, who had just let the woman off the bus and had taken off to continue the route, stopped the bus and jumped out to help her.


2. The six degrees of seperation phenomenon...

...is weird. Last night, I decided to call into an improptu bbq at my friend's next door neighbour's house. The group was talking about six degrees of separation. Cookie told a story about meeting a guy in Whistler, who he was meant to look up in Miami. I told a story of mvoing into an apartment in Whistler before moving down to live in Vancouver (where I was taking the room of an Aussie girl who was moving up to Whistler to be with her boyfriend and take the room of another Aussie girl who was moving down to Vancouver - which turned out to be me). I was saying that one of the girls I lived with, I had travelled around Europoe with and she was the craziest chick I've ever met. She lost her virginity to Mr Tickle - and I embarked on telling the story, when a guy sitting at the table, whom I had met 30 minutes ago says - "Wait a minute - I know Dana!! I dated her for a year until about a month ago."
I haven't seen or spoken to Dana since 1999.. Weird!

3. Is the fact that everyone has their ipods plugged into their earholes at every opportunity, breeding a culture of disengagement with the external environment?

Aloha

Well, Hi.

I have been a terrible blogger (bad blogger bad)... But here I am.

So.. How bout an update?

So, in August I travelled around the wilds Bali and Lombok with Partner (Jason) and Friend (Bennos).

Highlights as follows:
Lombok
- Snorkelling in the Gili Islands with sea turtles, cuttlefish and sunfish
- Climbing 3000m to the summit of Mt Rinjani (an extinct volcano)
- Finding an uber-cool punker clothing store in the back streets of Mataram, and
- Learning how to play dominos like an Indonesian fisherman at Using's house in Awang.

Bali
- The people are just beautiful
- The $1.20 longnecks of Bintang
- Ubud (all of it)
- The Penang food (really cheap traditional balinese food ie. a hunk of tuna with curry and rice for $1), and
- The hibiscus flowers put on our front door and lining the pathways of our bungalows every morning.

So now I am in Sydney. I have been here since the beginning of September, living at Jason's house in Harbord with his dog (Brad) and Dad. However, I am just about to move into an apartment with a girlfriend (Kimmy) that is closer to the beach. So it looks like it will be a great summer!

Highlights of Sydney so far:

- Its not Canberra
- I am no longer under the yoke of "the Man" as such (although finances do not allow this to go on for much longer), and
- I live about 15 mins walk from one of the most beautiful beaches in Sydney (freshwater).

Downsides:
- I miss my beloved friends in Canberra
- I don't have a job (and fearing that I am becoming a connoisseur of daytime tv)
- I am living with two guys (my partner and his Dad) who do not know the meaning of "algal bloom", "incubation" or "disinfectant" (but I love them both dearly), and
- The whole Sydney arrogance thing.

Its funny the number of times people say "oh your from Canberra right" and I correct them and embark on the whole " oh well no, I just moved down there for uni and ended up being there for... 7 years". All of a sudden, I feel weird because I feel judged and they have already lapsed into the whole Sydney-snobbery induced coma from listening to someone who, to them, is so obviously from Canberra but trying to deny it. But you just gotta laugh..

Well, I shall figure out how to post pictures shortly. But I would like to direct you to my sister's blog http://3kraushouse.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to Grace and Cameron on the birth of their beautiful little guy, Hugh Daniel Kraus. He is just the sweetest little rosebud.



Thats me, signing out for now.

Peace,

Maja Rose xx